The brightest photo images of Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is a celebrated contemporary photo artist and filmmaker whose work is featured in galleries and museums around the world. Many experts in photography call her "the most influential woman in modern photography."

On the photographer's birthday, we would like to introduce you to her very extraordinary work.

(Total 17 photos)

1. Permanently residing in New York, Cindy Sherman is still actively involved in international exhibitions and art expositions, receiving all kinds of prizes and grants.

2. Her name began to sound in the world of photography since the late 1970s with the appearance on the public of a series of photographs "Stills from films without a title" ("Untitled Film Stills"). The series consists of 69 predominantly black-and-white photographs and is quite consistent with the title - looking at them, the viewer thinks that he recognizes them as the heroines of famous films of the 1960s - the heroines of Alfred Hitchcock or Jean-Luc Godard. But in fact, he is mistaken - in all her pictures, Sherman herself acts both as a photographer and ... in kind.

Photo: Made in 1981, the work "No. 96" of the Stills from Movies Untitled series was sold at auction in May 2011 for $ 3.8 million. And a year later, for a reprint (reprint) of this photo, they paid as much as $ 2.8 million.

3. These talented and unusual (especially for that period) transformations into different characters remained the most popular series of the photographer’s works, glorifying her as the author of the famous “conceptual portraits”. And for shooting her “successful transformations”, Cindy played all the roles at the same time: she was both a model and a photographer, a stylist and a make-up artist.

4. “Frame #15”

5. When Cindy Sherman was asked why she herself models in her pictures, she replied: “I tried using relatives or friends, once I even hired an assistant. But even after paying the money, I was eager to throw them out of the studio. I felt like I was pushing them. For them it was entertainment, something like a game of dressing up. For me, it was not a game. In addition, I realized that I myself do not know exactly what I want to see in front of me, and even more so I cannot explain it to someone else. When I myself pose, I look in the mirror, trying to evoke something in myself - and I don’t know what I need until I see it. ”

6. Perhaps the last phrases give the key to unraveling the secret of her success: she did not “play”, she really reincarnated as her heroines, tried on their life, their attitude to this life. “My work is the fruit of my intuition,” the photographer admits, “I don’t know where it comes from.”

7. According to Cindy, in her work she tried to understand the role of women in various areas - in domestic and social life, in culture and art.

8. "Frame No. 21"

9. After the success of Stills from Films, Sherman continued to shoot herself as a model, creating several more series of "self-portraits".

10. Over several decades of her career, she captured herself in the most unexpected angles and reincarnated in all conceivable and unimaginable images, the creation of which required an arsenal of wings, wigs, costumes and other props.

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12. The photographer draws inspiration for his work from magazine articles, advertising posters, films, television series and everything that makes up the everyday life of a mass consumer society.

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14. She even decided to pose as the heroine of the paintings of Raphael and other Renaissance painters, making almost photo reproductions of paintings by ancient masters. An unprepared viewer is unlikely to guess that all the photos show one person.

15. A parody of the modern cult of beauty: a very popular image - "blonde with auto tan"

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17. "Cowboy Girlfriend"